Normalize aggregation

A parent pipeline aggregation which calculates the specific normalized/rescaled value for a specific bucket value. Values that cannot be normalized, will be skipped using the skip gap policy.

Syntax

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A normalize aggregation looks like this in isolation:

{
  "normalize": {
    "buckets_path": "normalized",
    "method": "percent_of_sum"
  }
}

Table 78. normalize_pipeline Parameters

Parameter Name	Description	Required	Default Value
`buckets_path`	The path to the buckets we wish to normalize (see `buckets_path` syntax for more details)	Required
`method`	The specific method to apply	Required
`format`	DecimalFormat pattern for the output value. If specified, the formatted value is returned in the aggregation’s `value_as_string` property	Optional	`null`

Methods

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The Normalize Aggregation supports multiple methods to transform the bucket values. Each method definition will use the following original set of bucket values as examples: [5, 5, 10, 50, 10, 20].

rescale_0_1

This method rescales the data such that the minimum number is zero, and the maximum number is 1, with the rest normalized linearly in-between.

x' = (x - min_x) / (max_x - min_x)

[0, 0, .1111, 1, .1111, .3333]

rescale_0_100

This method rescales the data such that the minimum number is zero, and the maximum number is 100, with the rest normalized linearly in-between.

x' = 100 * (x - min_x) / (max_x - min_x)

[0, 0, 11.11, 100, 11.11, 33.33]

percent_of_sum

This method normalizes each value so that it represents a percentage of the total sum it attributes to.

x' = x / sum_x

[5%, 5%, 10%, 50%, 10%, 20%]

mean

This method normalizes such that each value is normalized by how much it differs from the average.

x' = (x - mean_x) / (max_x - min_x)

[4.63, 4.63, 9.63, 49.63, 9.63, 9.63, 19.63]

z-score

This method normalizes such that each value represents how far it is from the mean relative to the standard deviation

x' = (x - mean_x) / stdev_x

[-0.68, -0.68, -0.39, 1.94, -0.39, 0.19]

softmax

This method normalizes such that each value is exponentiated and relative to the sum of the exponents of the original values.

x' = e^x / sum_e_x

[2.862E-20, 2.862E-20, 4.248E-18, 0.999, 9.357E-14, 4.248E-18]

Example

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The following snippet calculates the percent of total sales for each month:

resp = client.search(
    index="sales",
    size=0,
    aggs={
        "sales_per_month": {
            "date_histogram": {
                "field": "date",
                "calendar_interval": "month"
            },
            "aggs": {
                "sales": {
                    "sum": {
                        "field": "price"
                    }
                },
                "percent_of_total_sales": {
                    "normalize": {
                        "buckets_path": "sales",
                        "method": "percent_of_sum",
                        "format": "00.00%"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
)
print(resp)

response = client.search(
  index: 'sales',
  body: {
    size: 0,
    aggregations: {
      sales_per_month: {
        date_histogram: {
          field: 'date',
          calendar_interval: 'month'
        },
        aggregations: {
          sales: {
            sum: {
              field: 'price'
            }
          },
          percent_of_total_sales: {
            normalize: {
              buckets_path: 'sales',
              method: 'percent_of_sum',
              format: '00.00%'
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
)
puts response

const response = await client.search({
  index: "sales",
  size: 0,
  aggs: {
    sales_per_month: {
      date_histogram: {
        field: "date",
        calendar_interval: "month",
      },
      aggs: {
        sales: {
          sum: {
            field: "price",
          },
        },
        percent_of_total_sales: {
          normalize: {
            buckets_path: "sales",
            method: "percent_of_sum",
            format: "00.00%",
          },
        },
      },
    },
  },
});
console.log(response);

POST /sales/_search
{
  "size": 0,
  "aggs": {
    "sales_per_month": {
      "date_histogram": {
        "field": "date",
        "calendar_interval": "month"
      },
      "aggs": {
        "sales": {
          "sum": {
            "field": "price"
          }
        },
        "percent_of_total_sales": {
          "normalize": {
            "buckets_path": "sales",          
            "method": "percent_of_sum",       
            "format": "00.00%"                
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

	`buckets_path` instructs this normalize aggregation to use the output of the `sales` aggregation for rescaling
	`method` sets which rescaling to apply. In this case, `percent_of_sum` will calculate the sales value as a percent of all sales in the parent bucket
	`format` influences how to format the metric as a string using Java’s `DecimalFormat` pattern. In this case, multiplying by 100 and adding a %

And the following may be the response:

{
   "took": 11,
   "timed_out": false,
   "_shards": ...,
   "hits": ...,
   "aggregations": {
      "sales_per_month": {
         "buckets": [
            {
               "key_as_string": "2015/01/01 00:00:00",
               "key": 1420070400000,
               "doc_count": 3,
               "sales": {
                  "value": 550.0
               },
               "percent_of_total_sales": {
                  "value": 0.5583756345177665,
                  "value_as_string": "55.84%"
               }
            },
            {
               "key_as_string": "2015/02/01 00:00:00",
               "key": 1422748800000,
               "doc_count": 2,
               "sales": {
                  "value": 60.0
               },
               "percent_of_total_sales": {
                  "value": 0.06091370558375635,
                  "value_as_string": "06.09%"
               }
            },
            {
               "key_as_string": "2015/03/01 00:00:00",
               "key": 1425168000000,
               "doc_count": 2,
               "sales": {
                  "value": 375.0
               },
               "percent_of_total_sales": {
                  "value": 0.38071065989847713,
                  "value_as_string": "38.07%"
               }
            }
         ]
      }
   }
}

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